Sukayna bt. al-Imam al-Husayn (a): Difference between revisions

After the [[event of Ashura']], Sukayna along with other members of [[Ahl al-Bayt]] were taken as captives. They were taken to [[Kufa]] and then to [[Damascus]]. Throughout this journey, she along with other captives informed people about the tyranny of [[Umayyad]] and the horrifying act they did to descants of [[the Prophet (s)]] in [[Karbala]].

It is reported that on the day after [['Ashura']] and when [[Ahl al-Bayt]] were biding farewell to pure bodies of [[martyrs of Karbala]], Sukayna hugged his father's headless body and mourned. She spoke with her father and wept until a group of soldiers from [[Umar b. Sa'd]]'s army took her away from her father by force and dragged her to other captives.<ref>Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘’al-Luhūf’’, p. 134; Baḥrānī, ‘’al-ʿAwālim al-Imām al-Ḥusayn’’, p. 303.</ref>

Sukayna and other members of Ahl al-Bayt passed very hard and difficult times in captivity. However, the day that they entered [[Damascus]] was the hardest and most painful day. Describing the entrance of the caravan of Ahl al-Bayt to Damascus, [[Sahl b. Sa'd al-Sa'idi]], a companion of [[the Prophet (s)]], reported: “On the day that captives entered Damascus, I saw a man holding a spear with a head, whose face looked liked the Prophet (s), at its point. After the spearman there was a girl on a bareback camel. I hurried to her and said, “O, my daughter! Who are you?” she said, “Sukayna bt. al-Husayn.” I said, “Can I do you any favor? I am Sahl b. Sa'd, who has seen your great grandfather and heard his speech.” She responded, “O, Sahl! Could you tell them to move away these heads from us so by looking at these heads the people would not look at women of Ahl al-Bayt?” ”Sahl said that I went to the man who was carrying [[Imam al-Husayn]]'s pure head by a spear and told him, “Could you do me a favor? and in return I will give you forty dinars [or four hundred dinars].” He said, “What do you want?” I said, “Take this money and move forward and keep this head away from these women.” He accepted, took the money and moved the head away from the women.”<ref>Khwārizmī, ‘’Maqtal al-Ḥusayn’’, p. 60-61; Majlisī, ‘’Biḥār al-anwār’’, vol. 45, p. 127-128.</ref>